Alternative Futures: Housing

Following a widely attended public forum on housing in 2003, the Commission engaged a diverse group of talented individuals in the development of an online set of resources to stimulate and support a dialogue about alternative futures for housing in the city.

The following questions guided the direction of the project:

How do we make Vancouver affordable so all of our citizens and their children can continue to live in our city?

How do we ensure availability and choice of housing to meet the changing demographic of our city?

How do we increase supply and advance a strategy of moderate densification while protecting the integrity of our diverse and distinct communities and neighbourhoods?

The material was organized on a website which has been partly restored. The legacy website hosts videos, maps, photos, documents and graphics organized into three sets. (Please note that most of the videos were produced for viewing only on Windows computers.)

The online content is organized in three sets:

Infill Housing Tour

An exploration of infill housing, combining interviews with the participants with slides and ‘virtual reality’ 3-D images.